Update at 4:44 PM Eastern: we have confirmed that it was a bug in code deployed to WordPress.com that briefly caused all sites to display server maintenance messages. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Update at 10:48 AM Eastern: all services should be back to normal operation. The issue affected all WordPress.com sites between 10:34 AM and 10:39 AM Eastern time, and after that sites began recovering. Our initial findings show that problems in code deployed to the platform caused the issue, was quickly detected by our monitoring, and was reverted a few minutes later. If you are continuing to experience any related issues please open a support ticket and we’ll follow up as soon as possible.
We’re actively investigating a service interruption to sites on WordPress.com. Most sites are currently recovering. We’ll follow up with more information on this Lobby post as soon as it’s available, and will also post updates to the @wpvipstatus Twitter account.
Thanks Chris our news room is reporting getting Server Errors / Maintenance as we speak. Do you have an ETA on when this will be resolved? Please advise
Hi, George – looks like we’re working with you via support ticket on any remaining reports of error messages, so we can follow up there.
Hi George, I’ve opened a ticket with you requesting more information so we can investigate further.